Indeed, also with Peter Seiffert, Margaret Marshall, and with those who passed, including Giuseppe Danise (Bidu Sayao's husband) and conductor Eduardo Mata, and many others both born and died on this date.

Here are some of the people with whom you share a January 4 birthday. I have deleted from the Wikipedia list names I didn't recognize, and enlarged the names of people I felt were especially important.

Don't drink and drive. You might spill it.--J. Eugene Baker, aka my late father
"We're not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term."--Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S. Carolina."Racism is America's Original Sin."--Francis Cardinal George, former Roman Catholic Archbishop of Chicago.

My sincere thanks to all for your kind words. My pal maestrob let the cat out of the bag, the rascal!

I share the January 4 date with John, although my arrival on the scene was 1931 !

I'm very fortunate to be healthy after all these years and able to function like a much younger person, all attributed to the good fortune of having outstanding genes, which is the only explanation that's plausible.